Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-04-30


sndeavofed 10 reproduce The impression d
the hour end 000nA" Merely 70 know shis
helps % 10 look through the poets eysa ,snd
fesf with the poet's heart, and 70 reslixs the
meaning q Ne wofdA
~ heard the trailing garments Of the Night
. ~ Ssr ssSis ssirss aii frinEsd with iisb.
From the celestial walis." &c.
That exquisitsly sweet and pathetic poem,
Footsteps Of Angola" /" becomes II p0ssible
stiil more tender 10 ~ siter resdips that the
stanxA
NE ths youns and strong: xho cherished
~ ;hs rosasiSs isii II and nd psr,:sed.
| weary with the march Of life ="
refsrs 10 the poets friend and brother.in law,
George ". Plercs, Of whom he long after.
wards eaid, have never ceased 70 feel that
In his death somothing was taken from my
own LIE which could never be restored. !"
The poem was composed, he tells Us, In 1887.
The editor writea I" News Of hts friends
death resched Mr Lon9iellow In Heidelberg
after the death Of Mira Longfeli0w," aud to
her II the reference in the stances, ~ touch.
Ing snd beautiful ~ auy he ever wrote
."with SLOW and n, iseles. footstep
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
"And she sits. and vszes at. me
With those deep and tender eyes,
Like the starr. 60 stu ana saint-ltke,
LOOKING downward from the skies.
:os ,so,,n m a. .,r...:o ~: ,on.,,
AZ al my nSS fs.rs sss arc eis ad ssids. anu ''"e'S'
IT. but RENE hber only
such ~ .hose have lived and died ~
or this poem I sm not surprised 70 read
rted u 70 FELTON, and left Il with him. He
came up iu the evening and said that he had
reed it 70 bis wife, who cried like child.
l want no more favorable criticism than
thiA"
Equally tender and touching becomes the
beautiful conception In the poem, " The Two
Angels "-oi how
"Two angels. one OF lie and ono OF Death.
Passed DER our viil,ge as the morning BROKE,
and how the one, stopping ct the poets
house, brought into 1t . new life, while the
other, stopping at his friends house, took
life out OF it-when We read this extract from
letter Of the poat, dated April 25, 1855 !: 81
hsvoOnly time this mo- ming to enclose you
poom which perhaps You have not seen, as 1t
birth OF my younger daughter, aud the death
Of the young and beautiful Wits OF my neigh.
Dor and friend, the poet Lowell"
1 could 20 on quoting thus definitely
but II would still not give you anything like
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value Of an edition no thoroughly edited a.
this ono. II there could ever have been Q
possibility OF Long fellow and bis work being
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tain Longfellow's complete Prose Worka
The last three contain his TRANSLATION Of
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